Drive Review
Yesterday I was lucky enough to hear Nicolas Winding Refn talk in detail about his latest film, Drive. The film won Refn the prize for Best Director at Cannes and understandably the film has a lot of hype surrounding it. And it is all entirely justified.
Adapted from the book by James Sallis, the director explained how Ryan Gosling approached him with the initial idea, but the process had a very rocky start at a restaurant after the director reacted to medication he was taking for feverish symptoms. Not being able to even string a sentence together, Refn had Gosling drive him home as he was too ill to get a taxi. Still unable to talk, Gosling turned the radio on to unhinge the awkward silence. Things got increasingly worse for the director when he started to cry along to ‘Can’t Fight This Feeling’ by REO Speedwagon. After suddenly breaking his silence and singing along, air drumming, the works, Refn screamed in Ryan Gosling’s face that he has the answer. He knew what Drive was all about. It’s the music.
It is exceptionally clear how Refn’s emotional experience has carried over to his work. The soul of the film is the soundtrack, the characters appearing to breathe with it, tracking both the intensity and fragility of Gosling’s emotions perfectly. Adding a euphoric veneer to the simple act of driving through the normally monotonous city streets, the electro beats automatically make us view this film as retro, even when showing us the modern American skyscrapers.
From the trailer , you’ll know this film is rather heavy in regards to violence – hammers, guns, fists, you name it – but the film’s strength is that it commits unfailingly. There may not be blood in every scene, but when it comes it is all the more hard-hitting, arriving in short sharp bursts that are hard to predict and more than a little jumpy. The brutality comes from the hands of Gosling’s beautiful monster; silent, stoic and absolutely mesmerising. The incredible ability he has to emote with his eyes says more than any amount of words and was a fantastic choice Gosling and Refn made in regards to how little dialogue the character has throughout the film.
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